Richard Carpenter may refer to:
- Richard Carpenter (musician) (born 1946), American musician and composer, formerly one half of the Carpenters
- Richard Carpenter (screenwriter) (1929–2012), British screenwriter and actor
- Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812–1855), British 19th century architect
- Richard Carpenter (architect) (1841–1893), British Victorian architect, son of above
- Richard Carpenter (footballer) (born 1972), English football player
- Richard Carpenter (jazz composer), composer of Miles Davis's "Walkin'"
- Richard Carpenter (theologian) (1575–1627), English clergyman and theological writer
Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or carpenter:
“A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure.”
—David Boehm, and Louis Friedlander. Dr. Richard Vollin (Bela Lugosi)
“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)